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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;frech001, post: 4250855, member: 20616&quot;]My grandmother lived through an Influenza A pandemic that took all the males in her large family in one week, her father and six siblings.&nbsp; She said the older girls and her mother just dug graves on their farm for several days.&nbsp; Now Influenza still kills but is no longer causing panic.&nbsp; The coronavirus is similar to the SARS virus, a worse respiratory cold than the Influenza, but it too will be addressed with vaccines.&nbsp; What is causing the panic in the U.S. is the realization that our for profit medical system is not as efficient as we believed it would be.&nbsp; I was a health professional and practiced for pandemics, we knew one would eventually occur.&nbsp; We believed one would come out of Asia or SE Asia because of the close proximity of people with animals where viruses can jump species easier.&nbsp; What is causing the economic crisis is a combination of fear and the fact that so many of our commodities including pharmaceuticals are made in China.&nbsp; The greed that drove our manufacturing to third world countries is now coming back to bite us.&nbsp; What surprised me is that gold and silver are also crashing.&nbsp; But considering the impacts this pandemic is having on manufacturing, I suspect commercial demand for PMs is down as well.&nbsp; The PM market is not driven by us collectors, and shouldn&#039;t be.&nbsp; I collect for the history that I learn.&nbsp; With a good understanding of history, the current conditions are not unique.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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